I'm a huge fan of the series, and naturally, I got the full version the day it came out. Aside from some minor annoyances, Thief 3 is a worthy sequel, and a good game.

Minor annoyances are:No more massive levels, they are instead broken up into smaller levels that you can freely move between. This isnt too big of a deal because load times are very quick, even on my piece of crap computer.Combat has changed. You have a dagger instead of a sword now, you cant block attacks, and you cant prime swings as you could in the previous games.Having a weapon out no longer makes you more visible or slows you down. Again, I think this decision was for the sake of the XBox peoples.

As for the third person perspective, I originally thought it to be blasphemous and unnecissary, but upon experiencing it firsthand, I rather enjoy it.

"The game lags and spies need real weapons, you can say whatever ya want but I played some good spy players and well they run, they hide etc, but if the other merc is any good their dead, the immobilization thing blows, it gives max 3 seconds...."

Immobilize, get behind merc, grab and snap neck when he comes to. Now who's dead?